Clemence Poesy

“I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.”

“I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.”

“I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.”

“Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.”

“I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.”

“I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.”

“I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.”

“I believe you have to make things happen.”

“I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why some people see me as strange.”

“I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.”

“I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.”

“I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.”

“There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.”

“I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.”

“If I ever get married myself, it'll be in jeans.”

“I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.”

“I never hire a stylist.”

“I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.”

“To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.”

“I just love a girl in a hat. It's really sexy.”